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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:54:24 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Dremel, was Re: Best Way To Remove
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:03 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 01:44 AM 4/6/2009, neil N wrote: >> >> Loren. If you've got a Dremel, I wonder if there's an attachment >> similar to the "rubber disk" that would work? > > Disclosure:  I absolutely love the Dremel tool.  I have two, and when most > of my tools got shipped off to Maine and I was flirting with mental > hospitals I made sure that they both stayed.  So don't think I'm sneering at > it down below, just being realistic.  It's made for very small work, and > it's an expensive tool to run if you don't think in quarter-inches.  And the > manufacturer has a tendency to bite off more than the tool can realistically > chew.  In particular it and its attachments are not rigid enough for some > things they want it to do.  That said... > > > Something the size of a Westfalia decal would be an enormous job for a > Dremel, and it wouldn't do it well because it spins too fast.  For that sort > of thing a half inch by quarter inch would be more in scale to the tool. > > For appearance work of any size at all, Dremel burs, stones, sanding drums, > polishing wheels etc are all so small that it's very difficult to produce a > fair surface without waves and dips -- even polishing, which after centuries > of uncertainty has been proved to be essentially very delicate grinding. >  With the speed and small area/radius contact patch all these will dig like > crazy given the slightest excuse.

Well I was just tossing it out there <grin>

Figured there might be an attachment that would work, but as you say, controlling it would be tough even if one has a Dremel with vari speed. I can see how it would easily gouge.

In terms of the cut off wheels, I've had great success with these (page takes a few seconds to load):

http://tinyurl.com/dgopz9

I've used them for cutting the input shaft on my tranny (engine swap), the firewall for the Jetta coolant housing to clear, and even used it recently for removing the last bits of weld on my radius arm patch so I could fine tune the fit of outer bushing so it was flush to patch. (couldn't easily get at it with the angle grinder..... and not saying this was the right way to use the Dremel) Really useful if one goes "slowly" and if used carefully guiding it with both hands. One bump, and I'll bet it's shard city. I've had no issues with it though.

Neil.

-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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